Child and Adolescent Anxiety

This episode is primarily relevant to consumers and can be found here: http://behaviortherapist.podbean.com/2010/07/19/child-and-adolescent-anxiety/

In this episode, R. Trent Codd, III, Ed.S., interviews Anne Marie Albano, PhD about Child Anxiety Disorders. In this episode they discuss:

• The major child and adolescent anxiety disorders

• Whether parents should be concerned about shyness

• Steps parents can take to prevent the onset of anxiety disorders in their children

• Risk factors for the development of anxiety disorders

• When parents should consider seeking professional help and where they might go to locate appropriate help

Anne Marie Albano, PhD Biographical Information

Anne Marie Albano is Associate Professor of Clinical Psychology in Psychiatry at Columbia University and Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders. She received her Ph.D. from the University of Mississippi, interned at the Boston-VA/Tufts Consortium, and completed a postdoctoral fellowship at the Center for Stress and Anxiety Disorders at SUNY Albany. Dr. Albano is the former Recanati Family Assistant Professor of Psychiatry at NYU. She is a Founding Fellow of the Academy of Cognitive Therapy, a Beck Institute Scholar, and is Board Certified in Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology. In 2008, Dr. Albano received the Rosenberry Award for service to children, adolescents and families from the University of Colorado at Denver. Currently, Dr. Albano is President-Elect of the Society for Clinical Child and Adolescent Psychology of the American Psychological Association and is past-president of the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies. Dr. Albano is past editor of Cognitive and Behavioral Practice and currently, in addition to serving on the editorial board of several journals, she is an Associate Editor of the Journal of Consulting and Clinical Psychology. She has published more than 90 articles and chapters and is the co-author of several cognitive behavioral treatment manuals and of the Anxiety Disorders Interview Schedule for Children, all published by Oxford University Press. Currently, Dr. Albano is co-editor with David Barlow of the Oxford University Press Programs That Work series of mental health treatment manuals, and is the editor of a new series of practitioner’s guides from the Guilford Press. Anne Marie served as a Principal Investigator of a 6-site, National Institute of Mental Health-sponsored study entitled “Child/Adolescent Anxiety Multimodal Treatment Study” (CAMS) and also was a PI for the Treatments for Adolescents with Depression Study (TADS). Both trials examined the relative efficacy of CBT, medication, combination treatment, and pill placebo in youth. She is the clinical training and consultation director of the Evidence Based Treatment Dissemination Center, a New York State Office of Mental Health initiative to bring evidence based treatments to community-based mental health workers. Anne Marie is also the Director of the Columbia University Clinic for Anxiety and Related Disorders at Columbus Circle, a cognitive behavioral therapy specialty clinic for children, adolescents and adults. She lives in Brooklyn, New York, with her husband, Mark Olfson, and step-daughters Emily and Rachel.